A Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s city of Dnipro yesterday killed at least one person and injured five others, damaging a civilian warehouse, officials said.
The attack sparked a massive fire, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said on the Telegram messenger app.
An image published by regional prosecutors showed a building with collapsed walls covered in smoke and flames. Local channels posted videos of heavy black smoke rising into the sky. Dnipro mayor, Borys Filatov, said the missile hit a storage facility for diapers.
A Russian drone also wounded 13 people and damaged a residential building in the town of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Lysak.
Kryvyi Rih, another city in the region, was in mourning following Friday’s Russian missile strike that killed nine children and 11 adults.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia yesterday of working systematically in China to recruit fighters for its war in Ukraine, days after announcing Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting for Moscow.
China had warned Ukraine yesterday against making “irresponsible” remarks after Zelenskiy said Ukrainian intelligence had revealed at least 155 Chinese citizens were fighting for Russia.
“It is crystal clear that these are not isolated cases, but rather systematic Russian efforts, in particular on the territory and within the jurisdiction of China, to recruit citizens of that country for the war,” Zelenskiy wrote on X, referring to the captured men.
He posted footage of an interrogation with one of them, which Reuters could not independently verify.
“Everything necessary must be done to ensure that Russia has no such and similar opportunities to prolong and expand the war,” Zelenskiy added.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied Zelenskiy’s claim and described Beijing as taking ‘a balanced position’.
China, which has declared a “no-limits” partnership with Russia, has tried to position itself as an actor in attempts to negotiate an end to the war.
It is not known to have directly aided Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but has refrained from criticising Moscow.
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